You may have noticed that Google has changed a little bit recently. If you search for a site, it includes a handy-dandy site-search right in the results. And as TorrentFreak noticed, that includes one for thepiratebay.se. Intentionally or not, Google is now running a pirate search, autocomplete included.

This addition is obviously not unique to The Pirate Bay; it's part of Google's updated sitelinks section. It's just especially funny that it also exists for the world's most resilient torrent site considering that, in the past, Google has taken steps to shove the site down the rankings and make it harder to search thanks to pressure from the entertainment industry. You can bet fat cat rights holders will be complaining about this very soon. What's more is that it even has autocomplete which, TorrentFreak points out, seems to go against Google's code of not autocompleting queries that are copyright-infringement related.

For the time being, this search doesn't go straight to The Pirate Bay, but just returns a Google search restricted to The Pirate Bay domain. Meanwhile, TorrentFreak says The Pirate Bay team is thinking about adding direct support for this new feature so that it does link straight to The Bay. That is, if they can get that running before Google shuts this off. [TorrentFreak]